Hello and welcome to the Origins podcast.

I'm Lawrence Krause.

What's left to say about Noam Chomsky?

He's known throughout the world as perhaps the most important living public intellectual.

And his writing has been cited more than almost any author

in the arts and humanities over recent decades, and he's literally the father of modern linguistics.

Noam served as a role model for me since I took a class from him in U.S. foreign policy

while doing my PhD in physics at MIT, and I watched him speak throughout Cambridge with generosity and intelligence.

We did a dialogue on stage three years ago for the Origins Project, and we discussed a host of things

from language and consciousness to politics. That was before Donald Trump and Brexit and all that,

however, and I was happy to have the opportunity to update our dialogue

as always he was incisive informative provocative and brilliant

as well as providing a unique treatment of issues

one simply does not hear disgust in the US media

making it incredibly important to hear from him today.

Patreon subscribers can find the full video of this program immediately at patreon.com

slash origins podcast. I hope you enjoy the show. Noam, it's great to have you back here.

You and I had one of my favorite conversations before the public, I think, three years ago now.

Three years?

I think it seems, it's hard to believe.

But I time it by knowing that it was before Trump was elected.

So I, because it seems that's what's amazing.

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